How To Create Emoji From Photo | Make an Emoji of Yourself or Your Friend

Fed up with all those regular emoticons? Want to have some new flavor in your emoji collection? Do you want to spice up chats? Well, if your answer is yes for any of those questions then this post is just for you. You will get to know some amazing ways to create unique emoticons.

Emoticons, smileys, etc. have become an essential part of any conversation. I mean, our conversation can’t complete without these little cute emojis. As these little emojis are enough to express our feeling without even a single word. If we are mad at someone simply send that angry emoji, for showing happiness that little smiling face is enough for that, blushing, dancing, eating, hungry, showing love, hearts etc. there is are so many great emojis to express all our feelings and moods.

But we have been using these emojis for a long time. So, don’t you think that it’s time to change the things little? But how? Is there a way we can create our own emoji? Of course.

Trust me, it is possible to create your own face emoji. Yes, there are several apps and online services which allow you to create your own emoji just from your photos. Just imagine how adorable and interesting will it look when we send different mood emojis with our own face. It really sounds amazing. You can even create an emoji from your friend’s photo and send it to him/her. So, without wasting any more time lets get to know How to make your own emoji from a photo.

How To Make Your Own Emoji Online From Photo | Create Face Emoji

Here are some of the best applications which provide you to create amazing emojis just right from your photos. All the tools are really good and easy to use.

1. Imoji

Imoji is a highly popular and one of the best Emoji creating applications. I must say that it not only is an emoji creating app but serves way more than this. It not only allows us to create our own emoji and stickers but you can actually find millions of different emojis and stickers over the app.

You can also get the emojis and stickers which are created by different users and share them anywhere you want as it is full compatible with Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Twitter, SMS, Facebook Messenger and so on. It is also quite easy to create emojis using this application. Below are the complete steps to create emoji using Imoji.

I. Select your photo

When you first open the Imoji app, it will show you a collection of different emojis created by other users. But as our main motto is to create an emoji then simply tap that “+” icon button to open the menu for creating emoji from your photo. Now here are the different ways to choose the desired photo.

The first option is to get a photo from the gallery. For this, just click on the Photo Library option. It will open the file explorer from where you can select any of the images from the existing ones.

Next, the option is to click the instant pic, this is the default one. So, an oval shaped dotted outline will show up there and you need to make sure that your face is within that oval shape just to create a perfect emoji. And then tap the circular blue button for taking the selfie.

II. Cut out your Emoji

Now after you have selected the desired image, it’s time to cut it out for making it an emoji. When you click next button, the clicked image will appear but only that part which was inside the oval and rest of the part will be automatically cut out. However, if there is more area which you do not wish to include in the emoji then you can also remove it by moving your finger. After you are done with tracing the image simply tap the scissors icon just to remove the extra part.

III. Tag the Emoji

The next step is to tag the emoji you just created. By default, every emoji you create will be tagged as public so that it can be included in the emoji community to let others find your emoji. But if you want to make it private you can select the private option. Other people cannot access your private emoji.

If you select Public tag for your emoji then you will give it a name. So, give it a meaningful name so that anyone can find your emoji via its name. Then only you will be able to share the emoji you created.

IV. Share it

Congratulations! You have now successfully created your own personalized emoji. Now for sharing it, simply tap on the emoji just to display the options to share it. Just select the desired platform where you want to share your emoji and tap on it.

2. Makemoji

Makemojiis a fun and interesting app to create your own emoji. It provides you a straightforward and fun method to create innovative and unique emojis. Not only from photos but you can create emojis with different shapes provided by the app. The different shapes, colors, stickers enable you to create amazing and eye-catching emojis within a very short time. Unfortunately, Makemoji is only available for the iOS devices and not for the Android. So, let’s discuss the step by step process for creating emojis using Makemoji on iOS.

I. Create An Emoji

The first step is to create emoji. Makemoji offers two different ways to create an emoji. First, you can create emojis by using shapes and stickers and the second method is to create them just from the existing photos.

So, for creating emojis using shapes, simply drag the required shape and resize them just to fit your needs. You can even change the color of the shapes. If you make any mistake then wipe it off and try again. It supports a layer by layer editing process which is pretty cool.

Secondly, instead of using shapes to create your custom emojis, you can also create an emoji just by importing the existing photos in your camera roll.

II. Share it

After you are done creating the emojis, simply give it a name and you can share it on Instagram. All the emojis you create are stored in your profile and posted on the emojis news feed.

But from sending the image in your messages you will have to first go through the app then you can insert the emoji to your iMessage conversations. So, there is no direct method to automatically add the emoji to the emojis collection in iMessage.

3. Bobble keyboard with stickers

Bobble keyboard with stickers is such an amazing app which lets you create animated stickers and emojis from your own photo. It is one of the best apps to convert any boring plain text conversation into an exciting and interesting one. Bobble is loaded with a variety of features such as you can create personalized stickers, Whatsapp emojis, comic stories, Bobble magic, cloud sync, free sticker store and so on.

As it is a keyboard itself then for adding stickers and emojis in your conversation, you will not need to go to the app again and again just to send the emoji. You can simply do that with the keyboard. So, the process for creating and sending emojis using Bobble keyboard with stickers goes as follows:

I. Activate Bobble keyboard

When you first launch this app on your Android phone it will ask you to enable the Bobble keyboard. Simply follow the step by step instructions to activate the Bobble keyboard.

I. Click a selfie

Now come back to the app and tap the Heads option. It will prompt you to a new screen where you can click a selfie for which you need to create the emoji or you can just select an image from the photo gallery of your phone.

III. Generate a sketch

After you are done clicking a selfie or selecting a pre-existing image just select the gender and then it will provide you three different shades of the same image. You can choose any one of the heads to create the sticker.

Now edit the face and then proceed further just by tapping the next icon. It will create a number of stickers and stories of the head.

IV. Share the sticker

Whenever you want to share the created sticker or emoji you don’t need to open the app again and again, just open the app where you want to share the sticker and from the Bobble keyboard simply select the stickers you created. That’s it. You can instantly share the stickers and emojis.

4. Bitmoji

Bitmoji is another highly popular Android application to create your own emojis. It is a fun, expressive, interesting and impressive app with a huge collection of different stickers and emojis. There are hundreds of different avatars which you can choose to create emojis which can express different moods and feelings.

For creating emojis using this, simply take a selfie, choose the desired sticker and create tour impressive cartoon character and then you can simply share it on several social media platforms such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Instagram and so on.

5. Emoji My Face

Now, create a perfect little cute face emoji by suing this wonderful and interesting application called Emoji My Face. This app helps you to turn any photos of your’s, your friends’, family etc. into a proper emoji sticker. There are a huge collection of hundreds of stickers to create the perfect face emoji according to your need.

The only thing which you need to do is to take a picture and adjust its size. Now select any of the emoji from the collection of 100+ emojis stickers, save the emoji to a category and then finally share it with your friends and family.

So, friends! These were some of the best tools to create your own emojis. All these apps are quite great and free to download. Now simply download an of them as per your choice and play with amazing emoji creation and have fun. By the way, which one did you like the most?

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